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Peer reviewedDube, Busi – Second Language Research, 2000
Argues that functional categories instantiated in the learners' first language (L1) transfer to the initial state of second language syntactic development. On the basis of Zulu interlanguage data on acquisition of the obligatory declarative complementizer "ukuthi" (that) by English native speakers, argues that Comp contains a null…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Acquisition
van Eijk, Jan – 1997
The first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an interior Salish language spoken in British Columbia (Canada), uses the structuralist method to provide a detailed analysis of the language's sound system, word structure, and syntax, and to explain their functions and positions within Lillooet's overall linguistic structure. The account is…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1978
This guide is intended to familiarize Americans with the basic structure of Hmong sentences and with words or phrases that may be useful with Hmong refugees. Hmong is represented in the Romanized Popular Alphabet. Following a general discussion of pronunciation and tone in Hmong, the structure of basic, compound, and complex sentences is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alphabets, Grammar, Indochinese
